Man Spends Mortgage Money on Yeezys, Wife Understandably Freaks Out

One disgruntled wife takes to Reddit after learning just how much her husband spent on four pairs of sneakers

Reddit, by its very nature, is home to some of the most specific—and sometimes strange—enclaves of the Internet. For example: r/offmychest, where people come to vent issues they're having at home, work, or really anywhere in their lives. Sometimes the stories can be touching, sometime they can be sad, but in the case of one woman's tale about learning her husband spent their mortgage money (a not-so-little $2,500) on four pairs of sneakers, well, it's kind of funny—even if we totally get why she'd be mad. Which pairs exactly, you ask? Well, what else but some highly-coveted Yeezys! (And since you're wondering, no, we don't know which colorway.)

To preface this a little, my husband used to collect sneakers but has
stopped and only buys a pair every few months. He doesn't go crazy
buying pairs and his collection is rather small now. He's sold a few
of his "grails" as he calls it so we could put a downpayment on our
house. We both work reasonable jobs and have enough to save and pay
for the mortgage each month. But seriously, something just clicked in
his head and he apparently went crazy this weekend. I seriously cannot
believe he spent that much on shoes. I come home this morning after a
graveyard shift to a few shoe boxes scattered around the living room
floor. I thought to myself, maybe he's getting rid of some more pairs
and don't really give it a second thought. He comes home after his run
and before I take a nap he asks what I think about those shoes in the
living room. I'm like... uhh I didn't really bother opening them since
I thought you were going to give them away. He gives me a pretty stern
look and I knew he wasn't planning on it. He told me he bought them. I
was like isn't 4 pairs a little too much (assuming they were new
sneakers, usually he spends about $100 for a new pair of runners).
Then he dropped the bomb. He said those 4 pairs total cost us $2.5k. I
had no idea what to say. I was completely dumbfounded. Who in their
right mind spends $2.5k on 4 pairs of sneakers? He said he bought
those 2 pairs off of a guy in a local sneaker group that he met up
this morning. Each pair was $1k... I asked him wtf. He said he wanted
a pair of the Yeezy's. But he had to buy 2 since he wanted "one to
stock and one to rock". I was livid at this point I thought he was
done with this bullshit and now he spends this month's mortgage on 4
pairs of fucking sneakers. He said the other 2 pairs he got at the
mall so I'm going to get him to fucking return those. I still can't
believe he spent 2.5k on shoes. I'm really fucking upset right now and
I have no idea wtf to do with $2k of our money locked up in shoes.

This woman's sincerity, "he said he wanted a pair of the Yeezy's," is both heartbreaking and hysterical. As is the fact that this guy literally justified his two pairs of $1,000/each Yeezys with the classic sneakerhead catchphrase "one to stock and one to rock." It also makes us think this whole thing might be a troll, which would be a huge bummer. (Except for the fact that no actual mortgage money would have been spent on Yeezys in that case.)

If there's any good news here, it's that it seems they'll be able to recoup at least $500 of the total, which was spent on two pairs at the mall that the woman said she plans to make her husband return. Let this be a lesson to all guys out there: the wild (and sometimes expensive) world of sneakers might just be a rich, young, single, and renting man's game.

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